Gents:
Thoughts on brakes for an open, light weight trailer to accommodate FF/FC?
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Gents:
Thoughts on brakes for an open, light weight trailer to accommodate FF/FC?
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Iverson
A 950# car on an 800# trailer may not need brakes if towed by an appropriate vehicle?Originally Posted by Rick Iverson
Ian Macpherson
Savannah, GA
Race prep, support, and engineering.
My first few years of racing I towed my FF on a very small light single axel trailer that had no brakes with both a smaller Toyota pickup and F350 crew cab long bed …. Towed fine throughout the NE.
Sometimes simple is better. I wouldn’t hesitate to do again
Cheers
Len
Porsche River Oaks. Houston
My first racing tow rig was a 1992 Jeep Cherokee pulling a home built single axle trailer without brakes that came with the purchase of my 1978 TIGA FF. pulled it just fine. Another perspective is that there are a lot of boats towed on trailers with no brakes that weigh way more than a small formula car and trailer.
My first trailer was a homebuilt for my Lotus 51
It didn't even have suspension, just large tires at low pressure
towed it all over behind my El Camino
couldn't really tell it was there
last year I acquired one of those small IRD trailers which has no brakes
I'm not sure you can even get brakes for those small axles
"It didn't even have suspension"
My open trailer started life as a early 1950's horse trailer. My Dad had a local shop strip off the upper body and modify it for my FV in 1973. No suspension, just uses LT tires (235/75-15) at 35psi. No brakes. In the 70's I pulled it all over the Southeast. Dusted it off again in 2014 and put another FV on it. Still works fine. It has Chevrolet truck wheels and spindles/bearings.
My first rig was a 4cyl Datsun 4WD pickup with my RF81 on an open snowmobile trailer with no brakes.
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I prefer a dual axle rather than single. Reduces the chances of sway, or loss of control during a blowout. Brakes on one axle would help. I'll never go back to a single axle trailer.
Last edited by AlanVDW; 02.27.25 at 9:40 PM.
Van Diemen RF 79 #? Van Deimen RF 78 #231
It's not how fast you go.
It's how well you go fast.
For something as small and light as a formula car, a flat trailer with no suspension works just fine as the trailer tires become the suspension. The ONLY downside is if you have to travel any distance whatsoever with the trailer empty. It will bang and crash and jump all over every bump in the road and drive you nuts as a result.
best,
bt
I have had two instances of the axle on a non-sprung trailer breaking and the wheel/hub ending up making an unauthorized exit. Oddly, both times the trailer was lightly loaded. The first time it had a mattress, box spring, and light dresser on it, the second my HP Fiat 850 without the motor in it. 2 different trailers, same result. Maybe the less loaded the more the axles are under stress?
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